Double post mais il y a deux jours, Chaosium a publié un second communiqué concernant les Éditions sans détours :
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Voilà qui répond aux interrogations des pages précédents : ESD n'a pas le droit de publier ou de vendre des produits sous licence Call of Cthuhlu. Ceci inclut également tout matériel en cours de conception mais non encore mis en vente en date du 1er octobre 2018 i.e les produits kickstarters.
Entre Ludik qui a escroqué Petersen Games (ils ont laissé une ardoise à 6 chiffres pour des produits qu'ils n'ont jamais payés et une traduction également payée partiellement mais non faite) et les ESD qui semblent faire les morts, on va finir par se traîner une solide réputation de margoulins à l'international, les fromages qui puent
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Édition : sauf que coup de théâtre, hier, nouveau communiqué :
Accord exceptionnel de Chaosium pour que Sans Détour remplisse ses engagements par rapport à ses backers. Par contre, les Masques ne seront pas légalement disponibles à la vente, où que ce soit.
(Modification du message : 24-12-2018, 14:37 par Jalikoud.)
Citation :Further statement about Éditions Sans-Détour
Posted by Michael O'Brien on December 22, 2018
Earlier this month we announced that Chaosium has not renewed Éditions Sans-Détour license for Call of Cthulhu, and that a new French licensee will be announced shortly.
Please be advised that Éditions Sans-Détour does not have a current license to publish or sell their translation of Chaosium’s copyrighted Masks of Nyarlathotep and Day of the Beast material. The earlier license that would have permitted them to do this expired in September of 2018 due to non-payment of royalties and other contract violations. This includes failure to pay Chaosium the royalties owed for the Masks of Nyarlathotep/Day of the Beast crowdfunding campaign on Ulule.com.
As of October 1, 2018, ESD are not permitted to publish or sell any new Call of Cthulhu material. This includes any material that was in development, but not for sale as of October 1, 2018. Until sales reports are issued and those missing royalties are paid in full, or we can otherwise reach a satisfactory resolution, ESD is no longer permitted to sell or produce any material related to that crowdfunding campaign.
We noted in our earlier announcement that we do not want ESD's failure to perform its contractual duties to result in Ulule backers not getting the product they have already paid for. We stated we are willing to work with ESD to enable it to fulfil its crowdfunding obligations. We are attempting to negotiate with ESD to reach an agreement that would allow them a temporary license to publish this new material, but these efforts have not been successful. ESD have simply not responded in substance to any of our requests to discuss the matter with them.
If the situation is resolved we will provide an update immediately. But without a new agreement, any attempt by Éditions Sans-Détour to release new Call of Cthulhu material will be considered a serious breach of contract, as well as a copyright and trademark violation.
We have written to Ulule.com to inform them that ESD no longer has a license to publish or sell the Masks of Nyarlathotep and Day of the Beast material that was crowdfunded on their platform.
It is deeply unfortunate that Éditions Sans-Détour has caused this problem for the Ulule backers. Chaosium is making every effort to resolve the matter positively, but can only do so with the cooperation of Éditions Sans-Détour.
Michael O'Brien
[i]Head of Licensing
[i]Vice President - Chaosium Inc.
[i]www.chaosium.com[/i][/i][/i]
Les passages en gras sont pour la plupart de mon fait.
Source :
Ici
Voilà qui répond aux interrogations des pages précédents : ESD n'a pas le droit de publier ou de vendre des produits sous licence Call of Cthuhlu. Ceci inclut également tout matériel en cours de conception mais non encore mis en vente en date du 1er octobre 2018 i.e les produits kickstarters.
Entre Ludik qui a escroqué Petersen Games (ils ont laissé une ardoise à 6 chiffres pour des produits qu'ils n'ont jamais payés et une traduction également payée partiellement mais non faite) et les ESD qui semblent faire les morts, on va finir par se traîner une solide réputation de margoulins à l'international, les fromages qui puent
.Édition : sauf que coup de théâtre, hier, nouveau communiqué :
Citation :Chaosium unilaterally issues limited license extension so Éditions Sans-Détour can fulfil their obligations to Ulule.com backers
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Posted by Michael O'Brien on December 23, 2018
As announced in previous statements (here and here), Éditions Sans-Détour's license for Call of Cthulhu was not renewed after it expired in September of 2018. This was due to non-payment of royalties and other cardinal violations of the contract.
ESD acknowledged to us that it is aware of this termination in mid-November.
In early 2017, with Chaosium's approval, EDS crowdfunded a French translation of Masks of Nyarlathotep/Day of the Beast on crowdfunding site Ulule.com. The campaign concluded on March 17, 2017 and raised €261,544 (approx. USD$300,000) from 1936 backers.
ESD agreed to pay Chaosium a share of the proceeds of the Ulule campaign. This is the standard license fee to use Chaosium's trademarks, logos, copyrighted material and all related intellectual property for Masks of Nyarlathotep/Day of the Beast. Although this sum was meant to be remitted to Chaosium within 10 days of ESD receiving the crowdfunding funds from Ulule, it was never paid. In fact, ESD has not paid Chaosium any royalties from late 2016, nor even sent us sales reports despite us asking repeatedly.
Hence, the cancellation of the license. Permission to use our trademarks, logos and all related intellectual property has been withdrawn. Any publication using Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu material past October 1st 2018 without our express permission would be a violation of international copyright and trademark laws. This includes Masks of Nyarlathotep/Day of the Beast.
However, Chaosium has stated from the outset that we do not want ESD's failure to perform its contractual duties to result in Ulule backers not getting the product they have already paid for (although we ourselves have not been paid).
In the past weeks, ESD has finally replied back to us several times, only for communication to go dead again once we ask them to actually do something (e.g., pay past royalties, give us sales figures upon which royalties can be estimated, etc.).
We are understandably concerned that ESD lacks the funds to pay us even the royalties for just the 2017 Ulule.com campaign. We despair of having the two years of unpaid royalties on our work ever being repaid, even in part, by ESD.
Hence, we are taking this unilateral step to at least enable Éditions Sans-Détour to fulfil obligations to their Masks of Nyarlathotep/Day of the Beast Ulule.com backers:
We’ve tried to work with ESD to move past what is obviously a difficult period in their company’s finances, but not only have we not received any royalty payments for books sold since the end of 2016 - we haven’t even received sales data upon which royalties could be estimated. Our requests for this information have been ignored. As we originally noted, Éditions Sans-Détour has long been a valued part of the Call of Cthulhu family, and we are saddened that we have been unable to resolve these matters in a constructive manner.
- Chaosium will unilaterally grant a license to Éditions Sans-Détour to fulfill the 2017 Ulule.com crowdfunding campaign. We do that despite our concerns that we will never see a cent of the not insubstantial royalties owed by ESD, by ESD’s repeated acts of bad faith, for their serious breach of contract, and copyright and trademark violations. We do that because we don’t want the fans to get punished for someone else’s deeds.
- This license DOES NOT permit Éditions Sans-Détour to sell Masks of Nyarlathotep/Day of the Beast to game stores, distributors, or online. It ONLY allows ESD to fulfill the Ulule crowdfunding campaign to existing backers and nothing more. Nor does it waive ESD of its obligation to pay Chaosium the royalties owed. Chaosium reserves all rights to seek legal relief against ESD as specified under its (now-lapsed) contract with ESD.
We will be announcing the new Call of Cthulhu licensee for the French language soon.
Michael O'Brien
[i]Head of Licensing
[i]Vice President - Chaosium Inc.
[i]www.chaosium.com[/i][/i][/i]
Accord exceptionnel de Chaosium pour que Sans Détour remplisse ses engagements par rapport à ses backers. Par contre, les Masques ne seront pas légalement disponibles à la vente, où que ce soit.